When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)
JOSEPH CAMPBELLFollow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. –
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
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Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
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The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
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Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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